On Thursday October 24th, our Fellows 2019 had the chance to meet the 2 ARCAthens Residency Fellows at the beautiful yard of ATOPOS. Aristeidis Logothetis -ARCAthens founder and executive director- welcomed us and gave a short introduction about the scope and activities of ARCAthens, highlighting the importance of networks for artists. Visual artist Tomashi Jackson and curator Miranda Lash talked about their creative time in Athens, their work and research topics and exchanged ideas with ARTWORKS Fellows around topics that emerged from the open discussion. Some of the topics were migration, education and democracy. Lastly, Stamos Fafalios, ATOPOS co-founder, guided the Fellows through some of the archives, sharing insightful stories.
ARCAthens is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to creating opportunities for visual artists to expand the discourse in the arts as well as in the local communities of Athens.
Atopos cvc is a non-profit, cultural organisation interested in the expression and adornment of the human body. The word ‘atopos’, from the ancient Greek “άτοπος”, refers to that which is the strange, the unwonted, the eccentric and the unclassifiable.